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Group 8 of the Walker YDNA project currently (September 2011) includes 16 kits. They fall into Haplogroup R1b1a2, suggesting western European Ancestry. Of these kits three are for 27 markers or less; comparisons with these kits are considered unreliable. Eleven kits comprise the core of this group. Two additional kits are currently seen as outliers, matching the core only through the low marker, unreliable, kits. The core kits show relatively low cohesiveness, each typically matching 3.7 other kits among the core set of kits. Overall dissimilarity within the group (excluding isolates, and low marker kits) is about 11%, (vice an acceptance criteria of 8%) with 23% of the pairwise combinations of kits within the core group showing a relatively recent common ancestor. This is a relatively small percent of kits in a group, showing a very recent common ancestor, and suggests that the depth to the common ancestor is fairly deep, though still genealogically meaningful. This may indicate that some members of the core group descend from ancestors who either remained in the British Isles, or were independent importations to America. This is supported by the lineage data provided by Kit owners which shows that a number of the lines shown here represent independent importations

A number of kit members in the core group trace their ancestry to John Walker=Jane McKnight of the Wigton Walker lineage. This identification is based on the work of Emma Siggins White (Source:White, 1902) who cited family records for the ancestry dating back to about 1700 in Wigtonshire, Scotland. YDNA evidence has shown that White merged two independent lineages present in Old Augusta in Virginia beginning c1738. These two groups are commonly identified as the Natural Bridge Line and the Walkers Creek Line. Independent proof as to which, if either, of these two lines descend from John Walker I of Wigton, is not currently available. Currently available evidence suggests that the history of the Walkers Creek lineage is more consistent with White's description. From this perspective, there is a need to verify the ancestry of the core members of this group, probably looking outside of the usually Wigton Walker areas. One suggestion that has been put forward is that the Samuel Walker who settled near Natural Bridge in Augusta County is the patriarch of the natural Bridge line. There are indications that he may have come to the area not from the Nottingham Lots in Pennsylvania (per White, 1902), but from eastern Virginia. Kit 52737 traces descent from this Samuel through his son Joseph who married Susan Willis. Susan's family is known to have lived in Goochland County, VA and did not miagrate to the Natural Bridge area. This suggests that the Walkers and Willis knew each other prior to the marriage of this couple, and that the Walkers came from Goochland County.

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The following are traditionally included in the Wigton Walker lineage as defined by White 1902. YDNA data suggests that they are in reality two separate lineages that have been conflated in White 1902. The two lines are the Natural Bridge Walkers and the Walkers Creek Walkers

Most, but not all, Walkers in Chalkley's Chronicles can be traced to the Wigton Walker line as describe by White 1902. The above is a Summary of Male Descendancy of the Wigton Walker line, based on White, 1902. This includes the Walkers Creek and Natural Bridge lineages. Also included is thethe lines of Samuel the Orphan, known to be related to the Line of John III by YDNA, but also known not to be related to the line of Samuel of Natural Bridge. Not currently shown are the lines of, Alexander the Orphan, and the Letterkenney Walkers, all of which share the Walkers Creek YDNA signature with John III and Samuel the Orphan.) Entries marked "X", indicate individuals who are believed to have "died young", died without children, or about whom nothing is known.